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This paper collects summaries of 17 presentations made by various speakers at Korean Automobile Industry Study Group (Kankoku Jidosha Sangyo Kenkyu-kai), established at Tokyo University in 1994, during its first three years. The Korean automobile industry has achieved a remarkable success in building up distinctive technical capabilities and international competitiveness in the past decades, but in-depth academic empirical researches have become active only after the late 1980s. The Korean Automobile Industry Study Group was established at Tokyo University in order to activate academic researches and thereby to improve collaboration between Korean, Japanese and other foreign researchers in this field. This volume presents 17 presentations by our study group in order to help the readers understand the current status of empirical economic, managerial, and sociological researches on the Korean Automobile Industry.